Climate Crunch: making the economics fit

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Time: February 4, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Street: London School of Economics
City/Town: Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London
Website or Map: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicE…
Phone: 020 7955 6043
Event Type: talk
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Latest Activity: Feb 3, 2010

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Event Description

What if there's no solution to climate change without freeing ourselves from our obsession with economic growth?

At the beginning of this new decade more people in the US and UK remain unpersuaded by the science of climate change than this time last year. Could it be that people have spotted the yawning gap between the politicians' apocalyptic rhetoric and the bland lifestyle advice to change your light bulbs or drive more slowly? What if there's no solution to climate change without freeing ourselves from our obsession with economic growth?

Jonathon Porritt is a writer, broadcaster and commentator. He co-founded Forum for the Future and is co-director of The Prince of Wales's Business and Environment Programme.